Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushed toward famed Pianist Eugene d'Albert and introduced as "little Rubinstein." "In name or talent?" asked D'Albert. "Both," piped young Artur.* Once a gadabout bachelor ("My life is too naughty; I cannot write it"), he married at 43, now has two boys and two girls, youngest five months. Says Artur: "Boys are inclined to smile tolerantly and say 'Papa is a fine fellow-but a little mad.' But daughters-they understand-and adore! They know instinctively that an artist remains something of a child to the end of his days...
...last week Circuit Court Judge John Albert Matthewman dismissed the charges. The disloyalty provisions of the act were invalid, he decided, since they encroached on the prerogative of the U.S. Congress. It was "fundamentally true" that the right of free speech is subject to the "proper exercise of police power," but only when there is "clear and present danger" of a breach of the peace...
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, tough and able pal of Hermann Göring (and like him a onetime drug addict), never made any bones about his ruthlessness in war, except for the standard excuse of "military necessity." He was proud of having ordered the bombing of helpless Warsaw and of surrendered Rotterdam. He was "very happy" for the opportunity to try to blast Coventry...
...guerrillas. He ordered the killing of 335 Romans in the Ardeatine Caves (among the victims were women, schoolchildren, babies and 15 persons rounded up at the last minute as "extras"). Two subordinate German generals have been sentenced to death for that outrage (TIME, Dec. 9). But pug-faced, "Smiling Albert" Kesselring was still a good enough soldier to insist, "If there is any guilt, it is mine and mine alone...
Other officials named include: Jerome S. Bruner, lecturer on Social Psychology, vice-president; Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, treasurer; Bernard Barber '39, teaching fellow in Social Relations, recording secretary; and Jacob C. Levenson, teaching fellow in History, corresponding secretary...